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Palestinian prisoners threaten to escalate their protests

[ PIC 17/04/2013 – 12:34 PM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails threatened to escalate their protest steps in order to be recognized as war prisoners. The prisoners called on the head of the Israeli government to take the necessary steps to recognize them as war prisoners and to give them their rights […]

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Israeli occupation sends negotiators to captive Issawi’s room

[ PIC 16/04/2013 – 09:19 PM ] RAMALLAH, AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– Palestinian human rights sources said that the Israeli authorities have continued attempts to persuade the Jerusalemite hunger striking prisoner Samer Issawi to stop his hunger strike and accept a proposal to deport him from Jerusalem in exchange for his release. Jawad Boulos, director of the […]

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Lawyer: Israel pressuring Issawi to end hunger strike

Maan News Agency | April 16, 2013 RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Intensive efforts are being made by Israel to convince hunger-striking prisoner Samer Issawi to end his protest action, a lawyer said Tuesday. Israeli negotiators have been visiting Issawi at Kaplan Medical Center since Friday and pressuring him to accept proposals to end his hunger strike, […]

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Samer Barq interrogated by U.S. officers from FBI in Israeli jails

Al Qassam Website | 15-04-2013,08:10 Palestinian human rights sources said that the hunger striking prisoner Samer Barq, from Jayous village near the city of Qalqilya northern West Bank, is being interrogated by U.S. officers from the FBI. Helmi Barq, the captive’s father, reported that his son, who has been on hunger strike for 50 days, […]

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Cartoon for Palestinian hunger striker Samer Issawi – by @CarlosLatuff

Latuff Cartoons | April 14, 2013 | by Carlos Latuff   #FreeSamer | Global action to save the life of Hunger striker Samer Issawi Read a letter of Samer Issawi – On Day 209 of hunger strike For Translation in English by Rona Merril, Neta Golan click here Pour la traduction en Français par ISM […]

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Israeli forces prevent visit to Samer Issawi

Maan News Agency | April 13, 2013 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) – Israeli forces on Saturday refused to let 12 Israeli leftist visit hunger-striking Palestinian prisoner Samer Issawi at Israel’s Kaplan Medical Center. Israeli media said two female activists were briefly detained after they tried to break into Issawi’s room. Earlier Israel rejected appeals to release the […]

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Activities in Jenin in solidarity with hunger striking prisoner Issawi

[ PIC 13/04/2013 – 04:53 PM ] JENIN, (PIC)– The traffic was stopped for few minutes in Jenin on Saturday in solidarity with the hunger striking prisoners, especially the captive Samer al-Issawi, who entered the stage of extreme danger. Ragheb Abu Diak, coordinator of the Popular Committee for the release of prisoners in Jenin, held […]

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Prisoner Abu Daoud to go on hunger strike in protest at his re-arrest

[ PIC 13/04/2013 – 02:42 PM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Palestinian liberated prisoner Ayman Abu Daoud, from the city of al-Khalil southern the West Bank, decided to launch an open hunger strike to protest his re-arrest by the Israeli occupation. Ahrar center for Prisoners’ Studies and Human Rights said in a statement on Saturday that captive […]

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Haneyya: The resistance is still able to free more prisoners from Israeli jails

[ PIC 13/04/2013 – 11:32 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Palestinian premier Ismail Haneyya said that the Palestinian resistance, which freed hundreds of prisoners in exchange for one Israeli soldier, is able to liberate more. “We cannot forsake our prisoners, martyrs, Aqsa Mosque, land and Jerusalem, and we will keep up our struggle to liberate the […]

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Occupation refuses to release Palestinian prisoner’s mother

Al Qassam website- 13-04-2013,09:22 Ramallah- Ashkelon Magistrate’s Court postponed on Thursday consideration of the release of citizen Intisar Haj for Friday, while it released the female captive Suhaila Omar. Local sources reported that the court might extend the detention of captive Intisar Haj once again, under the pretext of investigation, without taking into account her […]

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UFree (@UFreeNetwork) condemns the re-arrest of Thaer Halahela

#FreeSamer | Global action to save the life of Hunger striker Samer Issawi [ PIC 11/04/2013 – 02:28 PM ] OSLO/AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– European Network for the Defense of the Palestinian prisoners’ rights (UFree) condemned the re-arrest of the liberated prisoner Thaer Halahela on Wednesday from his home in the city of Ramallah in the West […]

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#PalHunger | Israel re-arrests former hunger striker Thaer Halahla

MEMO | April 10, 2013 Israeli occupation forces have re-arrested the former hunger striker Thaer Halahla from his house in the West Bank city of Ramallah. Halahla was one of five Palestinians arrested during overnight raids on their homes across the occupied West Bank. His father said that he was shocked by the attack on […]

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Human rights group holds EU and UN responsible for life of Issawi

[ PIC 10/04/2013 – 07:29 AM ] LONDON, (PIC)– The London-based Arab organization for human rights accused the European Union and the UN of not doing their best to have hunger striker Samer Issawi released from Israeli jails, and held them responsible for his life. The Arab organization sent a strongly-worded message in this regard […]

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#PalHunger | Samer Al-Essawy facing heart slowdown, possible brain damage

LIVE BLOG | Global action to save the life of Hunger striker Samer Issawi Al Qassam Website | 09-04-2013,07:51 Occupied Palestine – Samer al-Essawy, who has been on hunger strike over 250 days, may die at any moment, according to his doctors. After examining Essawy on Sunday, the doctors reported that his heart rate has […]

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International from Sweden arrested at non-violent demonstration in support of Samer Issawi

8th April 2012 | International Solidarity Movement,Beit Omar, Occupied Palestine by Team Khalil A Swedish activist was arrested by Israeli border police this afternoon at a non- violent demonstration in Beit Omar. He was taken to the police station at Gush Etzion settlement and detained for two hours before being released. The demonstration was held […]

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